Counseling and Crisis Intervention
- Objectives
- Define the FRAMES approach to treatment.
- Identify appropriate motivational strategies for each stage of change.
- Define each of the effective catalysts for change.
- Identify the four types of client resistance.
- Discuss the importance of using a change plan worksheet in the recommended components of such a worksheet.
- Identify the assumptions about the nature of motivation.
$45.00 for 90 days - Objectives
- Components of a Motivational Interviewing Assessment
- Examine Motivational Interviewing styles and traps
- Define the MI Assessment "sandwich”
- Develop MI Micro-Skills OARS
- Discuss skills to identify, explore and handle resistance in clients
- Examine appropriate interventions for each stage of change
$12.00 for 90 days - Objectives
Improve cultural competence by helping the student...- Learn about the reasons for adopting a multicultural perspective.
- Identify cultural differences in coping skills and the expression of mental health issues.
- Identify the ways cultural influences impact mental illness.
- Identify unique issues for American Indians
- Identify unique issues for Black and African Americans
$12.00 for 90 days Objectives
- Review the 20 guidelines set forth by the American Psychological Association for practice with gay, lesbian and bisexual clients
- Review the VISTAS report on the RESPECTFUL model of multicultural counseling and how to apply it to working with multicultural populations
$12.00 for 90 daysObjectives:
- Explore multicultural and pluralistic trends; social or cultural issues affecting individuals, couples and families
- Examine the influence of culture and society on mental health
- Discuss issues in mental health care for African Americans, American Indians, Alaskan Natives, Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, and Hispanic Americans
- Explore Ethics Codes in Multicultural Counseling
- Examine Cultural Values and Assumptions in Therapy
- Discuss matching Client and Counselor
- Understanding the competencies needed to work with special populations.
This course is based in part on Counselor Toolbox Podcast episodes 204-209. Text based material is also provided for those who prefer to read instead of watch the video or listen to the podcast.$60.00 for 90 daysObjectives:
- Explore the overlap and concurrence of OCD, and generalized anxiety, eating disorders, addiction, PTSD, body dysmorphic disorder
- Identify neurotransmitters, emotional reactions and cognitive issues involved in each and what that may mean for treatment
$3.00 for 90 daysObjectives:
- Define obsessions and compulsions
- Define obsessive compulsive personality disorder
- Define addiction
- Explore common obsessions and compulsions and their function
- Explore why addiction often co-occurs with OCD
- Identify interventions appropriate to assist people with OCD, OCPD and Addiction.
$6.00 for 90 days- Define obsessions and compulsions
- Objectives:
- Identify the symptoms of panic
- Examine the function of panic
- Explore ways panic can become dysfunctional
- Identify the impact of panic on the person and recovery
- Identify interventions that are commonly used to address panic and prevent relapse
- Help for family members or significant others in dealing with a person with this issue
$6.00 for 90 days Objectives:
Prematurity
- Explore the causes and consequences of prematurity on the entire family
- Review medical issues for preemies that the family may have to cope with
- Discuss life in the NICU
- Explore the range of feelings in NICU families
- Identify strategies to help bond with baby
- Explore parenting under the microscope (in the NICU)
- Identify methods for easing discharge anxieties
Postpartum Depression
- Learn about maternal depression and child development
- Review postpartum depression effects on early interactions
- Review postpartum psychosis literature
- Identify treatment approaches for postnatal depression
- Review the scary thoughts handout
- Review the mental health disorders guideline for postpartum depression
- Review the Edinburgh postnatal depression scale
- Explore antidepressant medication use during breastfeeding
- Learn about prescribing guidelines pregnant patients using opiates
- Review interventions for postpartum depression
- Learn about community based treatments for postpartum depression
$48.00 for 90 daysObjectives
- Review some of the unique triggers for co-occurring disorders in adolescents and college students
- Identify current best practices for preventing those
- Explore ways to enhance college student engagement in prevention and health promotion activities
$12.00 for 90 days